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While Shazia Mirza was working on her degree in biochemistry, she secretly began going out at night and pursuing a second career as a stand-up comedian. Now famous as "Britain’s first Muslim woman comic", Mirza is "out" to her parents but has still not won their approval. Also, New York legislators consider another year of late budgets and incomplete legislation, The World’s Jennifer Glasse, and the first serviceman since Vietnam to be charged with cowardice.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the New York State Legislature
Michael Balboni New York State Senate, R 7th Senate District, Nassau County dicusses Albany politics
and
Ruben Diaz, Jr. New York State Assembly, D- 85th District, Bronx
discusses Albany politics, the status of the state budget and assembly ethics problems
Veiled Laughter
Shazia Mirza stand-up comic discusses her rise in popularity as a Muslim stand-up comic
Raise a Glasse
Jennifer Glasse Europe Correspondent for BBC/PRI's the World on her recent coverage of the war in Iraq
The Pogany Case
Richard Travis Pogany's attorney at Anderson & Travis in Colorado Springs,
Colorado
and Georg-Andreas Pogany Army Staff Sergeant, formerly charged with cowardice
says the anti-malarial drug Lariam caused his breakdown in Iraq
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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